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"Well," explained the manager of the Interstate Company, "our new model aero-hydroplane his been stolen." "Stolen!" exclaimed Dave, in dismay. "It startles you?" spoke the manager of the Interstate Aeroplane concern. "So it did us." "But " "You are mystified unusual occurrence rather. You can follow the track of a stolen automobile.
"Thank you Hiram," said Dave. "The telegram is plain." "Yes, cancel all dates." "That's easy, I have nothing on the programme for the rest of the week." "There's the aero-hydroplane stunt." "But the machine hasn't arrived." "That's so." "Let's go down and see Grimshaw. I want to talk to him about this," said Dave. They found the airman at the Aegis hangar. Dave read him the telegram.
"Jerry Dawson," was Dave Dashaway's reply. "That is the machine I want, Mr. Randolph," said Dave Dashaway. It was two days after the young aviator had told his friends at Columbus the name of the person he suspected of stealing the aero-hydroplane, the Drifter from the Interstate Aeroplane Company.
"Not on my account, I, am glad to say, Mr. King," replied Dave. "There is some trouble, though, for all hands around. It's about the stolen aero-hydroplane, or hydro-aeroplane, they haven't just settled on the exact name." "The Drifter?" "Yes, sir." "I read about that strange case. I suppose it puts you back in your arrangements at the meet here?" "Not only that, Mr.
They had a superb machine, and as they made a far lateral shoot it brought them considerably higher up than the Monarch II. In fact, after one or two circles, like a huge bird swooping after prey, the Drifter came almost directly over them. Dave's tactics were now purely defensive and evasive. There were five people aboard the aero-hydroplane, and they were desperate persons.
The Reliance made a beautiful run, and he felicitated himself that he had got onto the knack of running it right. "I don't believe much in hydroplanes," old Grimshaw observed to him as he accompanied Dave back to the aero grounds, "but I believe in you, and I will say you made a clever showing." "Wait till the Interstate folks send on their latest improved aero-hydroplane, Mr.
Dave did not have to glance at its construction more than once to know definitely that it was the stolen Drifter. Whoever was at the levers, Jerry or his father, thoroughly understood his business, Dave saw that. The aero-hydroplane came rather abruptly into view over a wooded hill top, and was rapidly approaching them. "You see, I was right," said Hiram hastily.
King. "Well, that is a little better," replied Grimshaw. "I'm dying to see that new aero-hydroplane Dave's people are getting out," remarked the ardent Hiram. "They wrote me it would be completed this week," said Dave. "And you are going to run it, Dave?" "I think so, I hope so. They claim great things for it." "Well, give your hydroplane a spin, Dashaway," suggested Mr. King.
He says it's only a question of time, he and his men running down the smugglers. You see, Hiram, we are interested mainly in finding the aero-hydroplane, and getting it back to the Interstate people." "That's so." "And we must think of that first." "I understand." "We will make a long trip tonight clear across the lake." "Suppose you get a sight of the Drifter?"
"You've thought the affair over, I hope?" "Something more than that, Sir," responded Dave. "I have come to tell you that I think I can be of some service to you about that stolen aero-hydroplane." "Good for you!" "I've thought out a plan, Sir," went on Dave. "I feel certain that the people who raided the aerodrome and made off with the Drifter are bound for a distant and unsettled section."
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